The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.
The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
You can't measure what's inside a man's heart.
Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.
The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.
Mothers. . . would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.
I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
That's the nice thing about doing stand-up. There's no development, you just go out there and get an immediate response as to whether something is good or bad. Getting a laugh is the best measure of how well you're doing.
A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.
The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other. --Slavoj Zizek
Come not within the measure of my wrath.
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but. . . a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.
This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.
I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't.
Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel